Diana Boggia has a masters degree in education and writes about all kinds of parenting issues.

The Voice of Reason

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By Diana Boggia

Diana Boggia has a masters degree in education with licensure in preschool, elementary and special education. She taught children with multiple disabilities for 15 years and has been working with parents (families) with behavioral concerns for more
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Diana Boggia has a masters degree in education with licensure in preschool, elementary and special education. She taught children with multiple disabilities for 15 years and has been working with parents (families) with behavioral concerns for more than 23 years. She develops individualized strategies to build self esteem and diminish negative, attention-seeking behaviors for each child to be successful in achieving remarkable results. Throughout her work with parents Diana has developed a program that includes hands-on materials encompassing limit-setting, developing structure with schedules, teaching time management, increasing listening skills and parenting with incentives, rather than threats. These successful strategies have changed the dynamics of many families who were struggling with their child¹s behaviors.

Did you ever try to reason with your child? How well did that work? Are you a yeller or do you use threats to take away toys and privileges? Do you bribe or negotiate with your child? Is punishing and spanking part of your parenting style? If so, has it improved your child’s behavior? Recent clinical research shows that reasoning, bribing, yelling and spanking cannot change any behavior, because none of those actions teach the desired behavior. As parents, we need to teach what we do want, not just try to stop what we don’t want. Research has also been done using multi-sensory communication, or talking with a touch. When you talk with a touch, and say exactly what you want, you will improve almost any behavior because the message has a powerful impact. Stop yelling, get up and go over to your child, talk with a touch and watch what happens. Read the research in From battleground to well behaved and follow the simple-to-implement alternatives which will reach and teach your child. Parent with passion and pride. Parent with a purpose.